Query All The Post Types

Description

Query All The Post Types is a lightweight developer tool that auto-detects every registered post type on your WordPress site and displays comprehensive information about each one.

Post types are automatically grouped by origin. No configuration required.

WooCommerce store owners: All your WooCommerce post types (products, orders, coupons, subscriptions, etc.) are grouped in a dedicated purple WooCommerce tab for easy access.

Developers and AI users: As of version 2.1, QATP registers every post type as a discoverable entry in the WordPress Abilities API (WordPress 6.9+). Any authenticated tool such as an MCP client, an AI assistant, or a custom admin dashboard can query your site and get a complete, structured inventory of every post type, what it supports, and how it’s configured.

Features

• Auto-Detection — Discovers all post types registered by WordPress core, plugins, and themes
• Tabbed Interface — Post types organized into logical groups for easy navigation
• Comprehensive Data — View all registration settings, REST API config, supports, taxonomies, and labels
• REST API Links — Clickable endpoint URLs for post types exposed to the REST API
• WooCommerce Tab — Dedicated purple tab groups all your WooCommerce post types (products, orders, coupons, and more)
• Quick Actions — View All and Add New buttons for post types with admin UI
• WordPress Abilities API — Every post type registered as a machine-readable ability (WordPress 6.9+)

Post Type Groups

• WordPress Core — Public — Built-in types with a UI (post, page, attachment)
• WordPress Core — Internal — Built-in types without a UI (revision, nav_menu_item, wp_template, etc.)
• WooCommerce — Products, orders, coupons, subscriptions, and more (when active)
• Advanced Custom Fields / ACF Pro — Field groups, post types, taxonomies, and options pages (when active)
• Elementor — Elementor library, floating buttons, and component types (when active)
• LearnDash — Courses, lessons, topics, quizzes, assignments, and more (when active)
• BuddyPress — Groups, member types, and email types (when active)
• GiveWP — Donation forms and payment types (when active)
• Easy Digital Downloads — Downloads and EDD-registered types (when active)
• AppPresser — Push notification and log types (when active)
• Plugin/Theme — Public — Custom post types from any other plugin or theme, with a public UI
• Plugin/Theme — Internal — Custom post types from any other plugin or theme, without a public UI

Data Displayed Per Post Type

• Slug, description, and all boolean settings
• Public, publicly queryable, show UI, show in nav menus, show in admin bar
• REST API: show in REST, REST base, REST namespace, REST controller class
• Has archive, exclude from search, capability type, map meta cap
• Hierarchical, rewrite rules, query var, menu position, menu icon
• Can export, delete with user
• Supported features (title, editor, thumbnail, excerpt, comments, etc.)
• Associated taxonomies with admin links
• All registered labels (expandable section)
• REST API endpoint URL (clickable)

WordPress Abilities API

Starting in version 2.1, QATP registers every post type as a WordPress Ability: a machine-readable declaration that authenticated tools can query via the REST API.

This feature requires WordPress 6.9 or later. On older versions, QATP continues to work normally and the Abilities API integration is silently skipped.

What gets registered

Each post type is registered as an ability under the qatp/ namespace. For example, qatp/post, qatp/product, qatp/page. Abilities are grouped into categories matching the tabs you see in the admin UI: qatp-core-public, qatp-core-internal, qatp-woocommerce, and so on.

Running an ability returns a structured data object for that post type:

• slug — the registered post type name
• label — plural label (e.g. “Posts”)
• singular — singular label (e.g. “Post”)
• public, show_ui, show_in_rest, hierarchical — boolean flags
• rest_base — the REST API base URL segment
• supports — array of supported features (title, editor, thumbnail, etc.)
• taxonomies — array of associated taxonomy slugs

Who can access it

Access requires the manage_options capability. Such as site administrators only. This is intentional. Post type registration data can reveal details about your site’s plugin stack and data architecture. It is not exposed publicly.

How to browse it

In your browser (easiest):
Go to Tools → Query Post Types in your WordPress admin. The sidebar shows a Browse Abilities API button. Click it and it opens the endpoint in a new tab with authentication already handled. Install a JSON Formatter browser extension (available for Chrome and Firefox) to make the output readable.

Note: visiting the endpoint URL directly in your browser without the button will return a 401 error. The WordPress REST API requires a nonce for cookie-authenticated requests. The button generates one for you automatically.

With WP-CLI:
See all QATP abilities and their descriptions:

wp --url=https://yoursite.com eval 'wp_set_current_user(1); $r = rest_do_request(new WP_REST_Request("GET", "/wp-abilities/v1/abilities")); $qatp = array_filter($r->get_data(), fn($a) => strpos($a["name"], "qatp/") === 0); foreach ($qatp as $a) { echo $a["name"] . "\n  " . $a["label"] . " — " . $a["description"] . "\n"; }'

Run a specific ability to get full structured data:

wp --url=https://yoursite.com eval 'wp_set_current_user(1); $r = rest_do_request(new WP_REST_Request("GET", "/wp-abilities/v1/abilities/qatp/post/run")); echo json_encode($r->get_data(), JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);'

With Postman or any REST client:
Create an Application Password in your WordPress admin under Users → Your Profile → Application Passwords. Use HTTP Basic Auth with your username and the generated password. Send a GET request to https://yoursite.com/wp-json/wp-abilities/v1/abilities.